Album: Iron Savior

Prolog

The Iron Savior is a gigantic vessel in the orbit of the planet earth. It is controlled by an immortal human brain - the bio-unit - which is hooked to a mighty computersystem that carries out it's orders and controles the vessel's daily routine. The Iron Savior was built and designed by the ancient
civilization of Atlantis to defend themselves against the deadly thread of the so called Alliance. Except the lost continent of Atlantis all land was controlled and dominated by the global force. In these parts of the world the moral evolution took a different path. Gaining ultimate power was their only focus. Ruled by pure egoism, where killing and betraying were legal methods to achieve wellfare, this civilization never developed a social spirit. To care and provide for themselves as well as possible was their only existing low. For milliniums the balance of power between Atlantis and the Alliance made war useless since the atlantian weapon technology was more developed. But suddenly this balance was about to change and the alliance attack on Atlantis seemed to become possible. In this situation Atlantis developed a global defence project based on a huge vessel in earth orbit,the Iron Savior. Equiped with the latest technology and enormous fire power this project was supposed to regain the old balance of power again. But then the dream of a peaceful coexistance was broken. A traitor sold the secret codes to the Alliance. With these codes the Alliance managed to paralize the Savior's biounit and to take control over the computer. In a devastating assult the defender turned into a dreadful assailant and the moon colony of Atlantis was turned to dust. But the war was not lost yet. A brave landing them managed to board the Iron Savior and to regain control. In a race against time they sent the vessel out into face to make a second misuse of the Alliance impossible. They programmeda course that should bring the Savior back to solar system 350.000 years later in the hope, that the conflict will be resolved and earth would be united. For those men it was a final journey of no return. Before they died out in the code a prime directive for all actions was programmed into the computer systems in case the Alliance would still exist: Protect Atlantise and conquer the Alliance. This directive could only be deactivated by the proper atlantian security code sequences. But it was already too late to stop the war. In grim and rage the Alliance pushed their buttons and in a final atomic strike Atlantice was destroyed completely and was lost in the seas forever.But the rest of the world also was effected by this catastrophy. Earthquakes, vulcanic eruptionce, atomic fall - out and dramatic changes in climate turned earth into a living hell. Those who survived, slowly, from generation to generation, degenerated more and more. Finally evolution was thrown back into the stone age where the downing of another mankind began....
Now in the year 2108 the Iron Savior returns to earth and is confronted eith
with a scenario where the civilization of Atlantis no longer exists. All attempts to contact possible survivers failed.The bio-unit is still paralized and unable to make desicions. So the computer still in charge draws the fatal conclusion that Alliance who still exists and rules the planet.With the logic of a lifeless machine the Iron Savior carries out it's prime direction: PROTECT ATLANTIS AND CONQUER THE ALLIANCE. The following lyrics are based on these events and describe specific situations in the past, present and future of the Iron Savior story...